Mark Dolan is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and comedian.
Mark Dolan has just signed an exclusive deal with GB News to host Tonight Live every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9 pm to midnight. Featuring an all-star panel, celebrity guests, Mark’s daily monologue and lively debate around the biggest stories of the day.
Prior to that, he was host of the daily talkRADIO Drivetime show, Monday to Friday 4 till 7. It was one of the most talked about shows on UK radio, generating daily viral videos.
With over two decades in broadcasting, Mark made his name as host of the iconic Channel 4 comedy series Balls of Steel, as well as three series run of globetrotting documentaries for C4 - The Worlds… And Me - in which, among others, he met the smallest man in the world, the tallest woman and the fattest pet! A bestselling spin-off book followed, published by Harper Collins. Mark helped launch E4 and More4 as host of Show Me the Funny and The Last Word respectively. He won the Comedy Lab award from Channel 4, which led to the critically acclaimed hidden camera comedy series The Richard Taylor Interviews.
As well as hosting Channel 4’s iconic comedy series Balls of Steel, Mark also fronted three hit series of globetrotting documentaries for C4 (The World’s …and me) – in which he met the most extraordinary people on the planet, including the smallest man, tallest woman, richest teenager, cleverest child and the owner of the world’s largest breasts! A Sunday Times bestselling book followed, The World’s Most Extraordinary People and Me, published by Harper Collins. A follow-up edition, “Do You Mind If I Put My Hand On It” was released two years later.
Mark is a regular pundit on Sky News and recently appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, Pointless Celebrities, The Jeremy Vine Show and previously survived a stint on C4’s The Jump. He was victorious in C4’s Celebrity Come Dine With Me, but sadly lacked the stitching skills to prevail in Kirsty Allsopp’s Celebrity Craft Challenge, in which his embroidered footstool was coolly received by the judges. Mark is married with two children and lives in Highgate, North London.
Mark Dolan has just signed an exclusive deal with GB News to host Tonight Live every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9 pm to midnight. Featuring an all-star panel, celebrity guests, Mark’s daily monologue and lively debate around the biggest stories of the day.
Prior to that, he was host of the daily talkRADIO Drivetime show, Monday to Friday 4 till 7. It was one of the most talked about shows on UK radio, generating daily viral videos.
With over two decades in broadcasting, Mark made his name as host of the iconic Channel 4 comedy series Balls of Steel, as well as three series run of globetrotting documentaries for C4 - The Worlds… And Me - in which, among others, he met the smallest man in the world, the tallest woman and the fattest pet! A bestselling spin-off book followed, published by Harper Collins. Mark helped launch E4 and More4 as host of Show Me the Funny and The Last Word respectively. He won the Comedy Lab award from Channel 4, which led to the critically acclaimed hidden camera comedy series The Richard Taylor Interviews.
As well as hosting Channel 4’s iconic comedy series Balls of Steel, Mark also fronted three hit series of globetrotting documentaries for C4 (The World’s …and me) – in which he met the most extraordinary people on the planet, including the smallest man, tallest woman, richest teenager, cleverest child and the owner of the world’s largest breasts! A Sunday Times bestselling book followed, The World’s Most Extraordinary People and Me, published by Harper Collins. A follow-up edition, “Do You Mind If I Put My Hand On It” was released two years later.
Mark is a regular pundit on Sky News and recently appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, Pointless Celebrities, The Jeremy Vine Show and previously survived a stint on C4’s The Jump. He was victorious in C4’s Celebrity Come Dine With Me, but sadly lacked the stitching skills to prevail in Kirsty Allsopp’s Celebrity Craft Challenge, in which his embroidered footstool was coolly received by the judges. Mark is married with two children and lives in Highgate, North London.
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Mark’s first big break came with the C4 hidden camera comedy series The Richard Taylor Interviews, in which he starred as a lunatic boss, interviewing unsuspecting candidates for a fictional position in his company. Mark also hosted the Mad Bad Ad Show for C4 with Micky Flanagan as team captain, and spent five years at Sky 1 indulging his passion for movies as the host of their flagship film show 35mm.
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Mark also launched both E4 and More 4, fronting new shows for each channel. For E4 he presented the comedy programme Show Me The Funny and for More 4, the late night topical chat show The Last Word, the very first show to air on that channel.
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Mark began his career as a stand-up in 2000, reaching the final of the stand-up competition So You Think You’re Funny. Since then, he has performed stand up all over the world, appeared for ten years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and currently previewing his hilarious new stand-up show Asking For A Friend, which tours the UK in Autumn 2018. He has just scooped a comedy award at the Leicester Comedy Festival for best joke at the festival and will be appearing at UK music festivals across the UK. Mark is married with two sons and lives in North London. His hobbies are running, drinking tea and agreeing with his wife.
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